[Robin W]

Please let me know where I can insert this code

Into your functions file see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Stephen Edgar]

I am expecting this will be a reply in the source database has some weird content.

To quote @JohnJamesJacoby here:

These types of faults are typically due to some encoding issue in that post. Sometimes this is from an encoding conversion to UTF8 that was done at some point. Whatever it is, it’s nearly impossible to detect without setting a time limit on queries and bisecting the difference until we can narrow down the offending entry, and skip it. Because queries could naturally take a long time, and because it results in missed data, I’m not comfortable with this approach.

The workaround is to find and delete the offending reply which is time consuming and tricky but the only way at this stage.

Here’s how I do debug this and find the offending topics/replies:

• Once the import hangs, click stop, take a note of where it was up to, e.g. Converting 11,299 – 11,300
• Click start again and the import will continue from where it left off
• If it hangs again, take note of where it was up to again
• Once finished make a fresh copy of the source database
• Now drop all the rows in the database that are not in the range of rows that failed during import
• Perform a fresh import using this database with the “Rows Limit” setting set to 1
• The import should hang on the offending topic/reply
• Again, take note of the topic/reply it was up to
• Click stop, click start again to continue on
• Once you have your list of offenders and the import has finished delete these rows from this database and test again to make sure it completes without hanging
• Now back in your full database (presumably a copy of the original) delete these same rows from the database and run the import again

[Stephen Edgar]

I would check if your web host is caching the bbPress pages and/or you are have setup caching yourself, if so disbale your cache plugin/s and see what happens.

[Stephen Edgar]

Probably running each of the repair tools would correct any issues with the replies meta data.
(This is assuming that every plugin is disabled except bbPress and your using Twenty Fourteen)

[xplusboy]

its for css conflict.
use this code in your theme style.css file to fixing that :

#main-content #bbpress-forums ul ul li, #main-content #bbpress-forums ul li  {
    margin: 0px;
    list-style: none outside none;
}

[aussiestar14]

yes it was the plugin wp-tweaks!
I deactivated it and now the bbPress sidebar shows up, footer is there because I took out the bbpress.php But there is still the left sidebar. When I use the custom sidebars plugin, I can add widgets to a new left bbPress sidebar, but I can’t choose that there is no left sidebar.

[Xaveus]

I have installed bbpress on multiple wordpress sites and seem to always have the same issue. On the main forum index page it says 0 voices and 1 posts no matter how many posts you create this never changes. Being that this has occurred on every site that I have included bbpress and being different themes and installs I can only conclude that I must be missing something when I set it up.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it….because you cannot run a forum that says there is only 1 post in it 🙁

Also I use no shortcodes, I just install bbpress then go to http://www.example.com/forums and start posting.

[Robkk]

but then the emoticon don’t show up. Well, emoticon is the least of the worries….please help me figure out how to get normal users HTML access so that they won’t get this issue.

i dont have any clue what could cause a problem with your emoticons, maybe your other emoticon plugin is causing issues, deactivate it see if it fixes that.

Yes sir, it do look like it’s restricted to to normal users. I just posted from the admin side and it works well

ok now your going to have to allow certain html tags, other than just allowing html to everyone. people might abuse that and add something malicious to your site.

heres a good topic to read about this. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/allow-html-from-users/

heres a function that allows the common html tags already in bbpress.

you can take it from here , or until someone else helps you on this, i have no idea how to do this haha .

add_filter( 'bbp_kses_allowed_tags', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_kses_allowed_tags' );
 
function ntwb_bbpress_custom_kses_allowed_tags() {
	return array(
 
		// Links
		'a'          => array(
			'class'    => true,
			'href'     => true,
			'title'    => true,
			'rel'      => true,
			'class'    => true,
			'target'    => true,
		),
 
		// Quotes
		'blockquote' => array(
			'cite'     => true,
		),
 
		// Span
		'span'             => array(
			'class'     => true,
		),
		
		// Code
		'code'       => array(),
		'pre'        => array(
			'class'  => true,
		),
 
		// Formatting
		'em'         => array(),
		'strong'     => array(),
		'del'        => array(
			'datetime' => true,
		),
 
		// Lists
		'ul'         => array(),
		'ol'         => array(
			'start'    => true,
		),
		'li'         => array(),
 
		// Images
		'img'        => array(
			'class'    => true,
			'src'      => true,
			'border'   => true,
			'alt'      => true,
			'height'   => true,
			'width'    => true,
		),
 
		// Tables
		'table'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'bgcolor'  => true,
			'border'   => true,
		),
		'tbody'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'td'         => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'tfoot'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'th'         => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'thead'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'tr'         => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		)
	);
}

[Robkk]

This is the Image of forum. Right above the emoticons there is a letter “p”. I am not too sure what that is for:

i dont really know either, but i think it indicates what heading style you are on , you see that list box that says paragraph click Heading 2 , now your p symbol should show h2

This is the image of what user posted on the forum and ended up with all the codes showing up:

it might be because participants cant post any other html tags than what bbpress allows, im not for sure though.

easy way to test it is for keymaster to post using span style, if it works then its allowing participants to use restricted html.

The user just replied that once he highlight any part of the content, that’s when it shows with all the codes.

how??

link me to your site ,give me some demo login details and ill sign up and try it out??

[deerheadlights]

As an admin, when I press the edit button on any post it takes me to what should be the editing url (www.website/forums/post/edit/) but I get a 404. When I am logged in as a user there is not even an edit button, even though I set the edit time to be 99999 minutes. I’m using a Twenty Thirteen Child Theme, with the permalink setting being postname. Is there some sort of edit.php in the bbpress folder that I have to move to my theme folder? User pages also come up as a 404. I reset permalinks, disabled the forum slug prefix and disabled my plug-ins except for BBPress and it still doesn’t work! Any help would be really appreciated.

[Robin W]

maybe a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robkk]

because otherwise you can just make a custom bbpress theme

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

[Robkk]

@desiamerican26 ok enable the visual editor

install this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

to add font-size and font-color install tinymce advanced also

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

heres some screenshots of tinymce advanced

TinyMCE Advanced

[desiamerican26]

Hi Robkk,

Sorry if I am creating confusion. I am providing a screenshot to what I am really looking for. Please consider that. The screenshot is from phpbb forums that someone use. I am wondering if we can have that under bbpress with CSS or any plugin.

Something like where it says “Font Size, Font Family” and right above Font Family there is an option to change color for Background or Font itself.

View
http://www.mediafire.com/view/opz9070g7wb1xz5/Untitled.png#

Download
http://www.mediafire.com/download/opz9070g7wb1xz5/Untitled.png

Thank You

[Robkk]

mann your bbpress is acting weird….

try

span.bbp-topic-freshness-author img {
width:20px;
height:20px;
}

[Robkk]

i have bbpress and i dont have a forum specific sidebar

so it must be something else. Do you have this plugin??

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

if your just using it for a forum specific sidebar, custom sidebars plugin can do that??
you just create a sidebar and only place it on forums, replies, topics then just throw those widgets in there.

[tonydes]

@robkk

So I did what you said and added the loop-single-topic.php to a folder in my child theme labelled bbpress. I edited out that code, but unfortunately nothing changed!

[aussiestar14]

the bbpress sidebar should be attached to all forum pages.
The sidebar is exactly called “bbPress sidebar”

It is available in the widgets area when you have installed the bbpress plugin.
You can add different widgets like “(bbPress) Forum Search Form”, “(bbPress) Forum List” or “(bbPress) Login Widget” to it.

[Robkk]

@aussiestar14

ok what should be on this bbpress sidebar??

is it a plugin, did you make it out of the plugin custom sidebars??

tell me as much information that you can about it.

[Robkk]

first one more question , do you have custom css rules that you added already that include modifying images?

I don’t have a bbpress custom theme

okay create a bbpress custom theme now, add all the templates into your child theme.

more info here https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-3/

lets work on this first http://revlanka.com/forums/forum/automotive-news/local-news/

since it has the issue on the notice , started by and freshness authors

now go to loop-single-topic.php and find

<span class="bbp-topic-started-by"><?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '14' ) ) ); ?></span>

does it say 14 ?

if you dont want the started by author image remove make it where its like this

<span class="bbp-topic-started-by"><?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link() ); ?></span>

tell me if that works

I’m pretty novice at this, but does this mean that I have to edit from the style sheet?

all of the images that have issues (started by, notice, freshness), are sized in the templates in php rather than css .

[aussiestar14]

I know, thanks!
bbpress sidebar would be perfect!
Haven’t seen this sidebar so far. Where can I look this one up?

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this in favour of your original topic, please don’t create multiple topics, when someone has an answer to your question they will post a reply. A bit of patience goes a long way as everyone here is a volunteer.

forums individual category top five recent topics

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this in favour of your original topic, please don’t create multiple topics, when someone has an answer to your question they will post a reply. A bit of patience goes a long way as everyone here is a volunteer.

forums individual category top five recent topics

[tonydes]

@robkk, I’m using a premiumpress theme. I tried again after disabling all my plugins, but the code still didn’t work.
I don’t have a bbpress custom theme either. I’m pretty novice at this, but does this mean that I have to edit from the style sheet?

[Robkk]

@tonydes

what is your theme?? (you should link to it if you can)
what are all your plugins??
are you making a bbpress custom theme?? (did you copy the templates into your child theme??)

a work around for displaying some avatars, is copy the templates in the child theme, look for the specific call of an avatar and wrapping a class around it then include certain css for that class and image,css display:none; the rest and see if that works.

other than that it might be cdns , or it could be where you have to contact your theme developer.